Composers combine notes, that’s all.
IGOR STRAVINSKYGood composers don’t borrow, they steal.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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Look for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. My music is best understood by children and animals.
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In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
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The further one separates himself from the precepts of the Christian Church, the further one distances himself from the truth. Only God can create. I make music from music.
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Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody’s piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.
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Old age is a time of humiliations, the most disagreeable of which, for me, is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration.
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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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What force is more potent than love?
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The faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation.
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Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received.
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All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
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Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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